While on the last leg of a 4-day bike trip around the southern half of Lake Michigan last weekend, I stopped in at Three Floyds Brewing with a few friends. Although their brewpub was closed on Mondays, their tattoo-flecked brewer Barnaby greeted us warmly and offered us a few brews, including a samples of Fantabulous Resplendence (strong and hoppy barley-wineish) and Romulus and Remus (evil twin beers hopped with different varietals). While inside we bumped into acclaimed brewer Teri Fahrendorf, who left her job and is traveling the country visiting breweries and blogging about it. In an industry dominated by boys and men, Teri has built a reputation as a skilled brewer equal in all ways to her counterparts. Her new gig let's her be an informal ambassador for craft beer and based on my first impression she makes for a good one. It would be nice if a few more women would slip on the pink rubber boots like her (although she wasn't wearing them when I saw her). The sausage festival nature of most beer events gets old after a while, and that's not just because I'm a vegetarian.
